Whenever you’re not utilizing your iPhone, the Lock Display is what you see most frequently. Liquid Glass is all over the place in iOS 26, and it begins proper once you decide up your machine. The Lock Display received a Liquid Glass overhaul, plus a couple of different new options.
Here is what you will see first once you improve to ‌iOS 26‌.
Liquid Glass
The 2 customizable management buttons on the Lock Display are bigger and have a floating, glass-like look like the opposite Liquid Glass interface choices in ‌iOS 26‌. The clock has a frosted glass look with the brand new “Glass” possibility, utilizing lighting results to make it seem like glass in the actual world.
Glass could be chosen for any of the clock fonts, and you may select a coloration to tint the glass. Apple has a number of preset choices, or you possibly can choose your individual.
Whenever you tilt your ‌iPhone‌, gentle displays and glints with the motion, for a sensible glass impact.
Notifications which might be in your Lock Display have a Liquid Glass aesthetic with a frosted glass look that leaves your wallpaper seen behind them.
Clock
Along with having a Liquid Glass aesthetic, the clock could be resized to higher match your ‌iPhone‌’s wallpaper utilizing a brand new adaptive characteristic. Whenever you’re customizing your Lock Display, you possibly can seize the nook of the time and drag it all the way down to develop it.
Adjusting the dimensions of the time solely works with the primary font possibility, and solely with the usual Arabic, Western numbering.
With photograph wallpapers, the time can routinely develop to fill in lacking house, and it may possibly change primarily based on the picture when you have Photograph Shuffle set. The topic in photograph wallpapers is supposed to all the time be seen, and might overlap the time in distinctive methods in ‌iOS 26‌.
There’s a Images watch face for the Apple Watch that additionally helps time that modifications dimension and place primarily based on the wallpaper.
Wallpaper
There’s a new default wallpaper that was designed for ‌iOS 26‌. It is a number of shades of blue, with the identical floating glass aesthetic that the remainder of ‌iOS 26‌ options. The wallpaper can subtly shift with ‌iPhone‌ motion.
It is a small element, however the icons for choosing completely different wallpaper classes have been up to date to higher match the Liquid Glass design.
Spatial Scenes
Except for the Liquid Glass time, Spatial Scenes are the largest change to the Lock Display. 2D photographs that you simply set as wallpaper could be changed into 3D spatial photographs that separate the topic of the photograph from the background utilizing depth data.
Whenever you transfer your ‌iPhone‌, Spatial Scenes shift and transfer together with it, making the photographs really feel alive. Spatial Scenes is a characteristic within the ‌Images‌ app too, and it may be added to any picture that you have taken along with your ‌iPhone‌, together with older ones.
Faucet on the small icon with a mountain and a solar to activate the Spatial Scenes setting when selecting a photograph wallpaper.
Lock Display widgets could be positioned on the highest of the show beneath the time, or on the backside of the show. In earlier variations of iOS, you can solely put widgets on the prime of the display screen. With the adaptive clock and new wallpaper choices, widgets also can shift down routinely to make sure the topic of a picture is all the time seen.
Apple Music
Apple added a brand new Lock Display widget for Apple Music search, however there aren’t any different new Lock Display widget choices. What’s new, although, is a brand new full display screen Now Taking part in interface that exhibits album artwork. Art work expands and animates proper on the Lock Display.
Learn Extra
We now have a devoted iOS 26 roundup that goes into element on the entire new options which might be accessible within the replace.
